CCMS Docs Adopt ~ Rising Star Award
The CCMS School Health Committee works with MUSC Children’s Hospital Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness to promote wellness. Many Charleston County Schools participate in the Docs Adopt School Health Initiative© and have a doctor serve on their wellness committee. Recently CCMS President Todd Schlesinger presented the CCMS Rising Star Award to the school that should the most improvement in the wellness scores. DocsAdopt Rising Star Award (pdf)
CCMS Docs Adopt Initiative Wins National Award
MUSC’s Dr. Janice Key, right, of the Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness, receives the Wellness Frontiers Award from Debbie Witchey, executive vice president of the Healthcare Leadership Council, Feb. 18 Click to Read the Story Courtesy of The Catalyst. By J. Ryne Danielson
DocsAdopt Award Ceremony
We are excited to share with you that the Boeing Center for Children's Wellness is the recipient of Healthcare Leadership Council's 2015 Wellness Frontiers Award. This award recognizes organizations for implementing evidence-based wellness programs that prevent disease and improve the well-being of a population. HLC is coming to Charleston to host an award celebration on February 18, 2016. We hope that you can attend!
DocsAdopt : Our School wellness program, launched in Charleston five years ago, to expand to 12 or more districts
A school health program involving the simple combination of a checklist, school wellness committees and relatively small, year-end incentive awards that started in Charleston is spreading across South Carolina. Source: School wellness program, launched in Charleston five years ago, to expand to 12 or more districts - Post and Courier
CCMS School Health Committee and Docs Adopt Program
Dr. Kay Durst recognized for her work with Docs-Adopt and the Daniel Island School Dr. Kay Durst, MD She already had two boys, but Kay Durst was thoughtfully considering adopting. And though some would say she was perhaps overly ambitious to juggle a busy career as a family medicine physician with more kids, she would respond that it was because of her professional expertise that she would adopt a number of children. 1,300, to be exact. The Docs-Adopt program was launched in November 2010, when the Charleston County Medical Society and Charleston County School District partnered to pair [...]
